The Man is out to get Kanye West, or so he'd like to think.
In his little world, he can't just be a moderately talented musician, but he has
to be a martyr, hero, savior - an angel or even Jesus Christ Hisself.
Seriously, I mean look:

Thing is, being basically a rich kid with a successful career,
the only persecution he suffers is sometimes not winning ALL the awards.
He's got multi-platinum albums and multiple Grammys, but when he sometimes
doesn't get an MTV award, he breaks down like a hysterical little bitch.
He was robbed. Of course, it's because he's black. He's done this
more than once.

From US magazine, November 3, 2006

Rapper Kanye West crashed the stage at the MTV Europe Music Awards in
Copenhagen, Denmark, Thursday night and launched into a profanity-laced tirade
after losing out on the Best Video award, MTV
reports.

West, who won Best Hip-Hop artist honors, was clearly not pleased that Justice
vs. Simian's "We Are Your Friends" beat out his own big-budget "Touch the Sky."

Unlike the Simian clip — which features images of people falling through floors,
lying passed out as a forest of beer bottles is set up around them and milk and
cereal are poured on them — Kanye argued during his bum-rushing rant that his
high-concept clip should have won because, "[My video] cost a million dollars.
Pamela Anderson was in it. I was jumping across canyons and sh--." When
his video doesn't win, Kanye argued, "the awards show loses credibility. Nothing
against you, but hell, man."

The rant, which inspired gasps from the audience, carried over into a post-show
press conference, in which West admitted to reporters, "I haven't seen [the
Justice vs. Simian video]. Possibly it could have been quite good, but no way
better than 'Touch the Sky'. That is complete bullsh--. I paid a million.
Obviously it's not all about the money, but the response it got transcended
everything, it really made great TV. It took a month to film; I stood on a
mountain; I flew a helicopter over Vegas. I did it to be the king of all videos
and I wanted to walk home with that award."

For being so utterly self-involved, Monsieur West doesn't seem
to have much self-awareness to see how ridiculous this stuff looks, and how
contemptible when you add in on top all the pure silly childish hatefulness he
expresses.

Still, Kanye West created "Gold Digger," so I'll overlook a lot
for that.